Editing Sandoval County, New Mexico (section)

==Politics==

Since New Mexico obtained statehood in 1912, Sandoval county has been remarkably accurate in predicting the winner of each presidential race. The only elections where Sandoval County failed to back the overall winner were in 1912 (Theodore Roosevelt won the county on the Bull Moose ticket), 1944, 1968, 2016, and 2024. Hillary Clinton won a plurality, but not majority, of votes in Sandoval county in 2016 due to Gary Johnson (who previously served as Governor of New Mexico) winning an abnormally high number of votes that election. Since 2004, Sandoval County has voted more consistently Democratic in presidential elections, though at narrower margins than nearby Bernalillo County.

Most parts of the city of Rio Rancho vote majority Republican and this is where this party's strength lies. Otherwise, the more remote parts of the [[Jemez Mountains]] and the town of Cuba trend Republican. However, this is offset by Corrales, Placitas, San Ysidro, and all the Pueblos in the county, as well as many other rural areas which trend Democratic. Cochiti Pueblo in particular is the most Democratic region in the county. Bernalillo has also long been a strongly Democratic region, though in the 2024 election it saw a large shift toward the Republican party, as did the pueblos of Zia and Kewa (Santo Domingo) in particular. Yet the fact that a number of precincts in Corrales and north-central Rio Rancho shifted further toward the left meant that the results of the 2024 election in this county only shifted to the right about 1.2 points from 2020.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/elections/2024-election-map-precinct-results.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk4.9CUE.eUcpg0mNRL9r&smid=url-share | title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election | work=The New York Times | date=January 15, 2025 | last1=Datar | first1=Saurabh | last2=Marcus | first2=Ilana | last3=Murray | first3=Eli | last4=Singer | first4=Ethan | last5=Lemonides | first5=Alex | last6=Zhang | first6=Christine }}</ref>

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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|34,174|40,588|1,800|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|25,905|27,707|8,078|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|24,387|27,236|2,455|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|25,193|32,669|768|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|22,628|21,421|492|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|15,423|14,899|1,433|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|11,015|13,081|2,352|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|8,491|10,951|4,132|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|9,411|9,332|268|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|9,005|7,080|161|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|6,762|4,740|1,080|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|4,110|5,072|87|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,507|3,293|179|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|1,959|2,609|160|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,077|3,332|11|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|1,447|2,672|0|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,979|1,574|1|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,795|1,647|6|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,675|1,851|13|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,439|1,354|2|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,990|2,060|1|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,800|2,094|4|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,562|1,808|8|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,700|1,159|1|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,587|1,096|29|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,194|884|0|New Mexico}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|611|734|0|New Mexico}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|211|126|583|New Mexico}}